Title: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi: Electronic Projects with Python, Scratch, and Linux
Publisher: Make Community, LLC
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1457186128
ISBN 13: 9781457186127
Binding: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 0.59 pounds

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What can you do with the Raspberry Pi, the affordable computer the size of a credit card? All sorts of things! If you're learning how to program--or looking to build new electronic projects, this hands-on guide will show you just how valuable this flexible little platform can be.

Updated to include coverage of the Raspberry Pi Model B+, Getting Started with Raspberry Pi takes you step-by-step through many fun and educational possibilities. Take advantage of several preloaded programming languages. Use the Raspberry Pi with Arduino. Create Internet-connected projects. Play with multimedia. With Raspberry Pi, you can do all of this and more.

In Getting Started with Raspberry Pi, you’ll:

Get acquainted with hardware features on the Pi's board
Learn enough Linux to move around the operating system
Start programming in Python and Scratch
Draw graphics, play sounds, and handle mouse events with Pygame
Use the Pi's input and output pins to do some hardware hacking
Discover how Arduino and the Raspberry Pi can work together
Create your own Pi-based web server with Python
Work with the Raspberry Pi Camera Module and USB webcams

About the Authors

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based Product Evangelist for Raspberry Pi, and is responsible for outreach within the United States. He’s a graduate of New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Highlights from his work include the Descriptive Camera (a camera which outputs a text description instead of a photo) and The Enough Already (a DIY celebrity-silencing device). Matt’s work has been featured at The Nevada Museum of Art, The Rome International Photography Festival, Milan Design Week and has garnered attention from The New York Times, Wired, and New York Magazine.

Shawn Wallace is the Director of the AS220 Industries, part of the AS220 community arts center in Providence RI. There he shepherds the Providence Fab Lab, Printshop and Media arts programming, designs open hardware kits for Modern Device and runs the local node of the Fab Academy. He's member of the Fluxama artist collective responsible for new iOS musical instruments such as Noisemusick and Doctor Om. Shawn was formerly an editor at O'Reilly and Maker Media and is a cofounder of the SMT Computing Society.

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